Eric Matthew Frein: Pictures, Facts for Suspect ID‘d in ’Survivalist' Pennsylvania Police Shooting [Breaking News]

Eric Matthew Frein: Pictures, Facts for Suspect ID‘d in ’Survivalist' Pennsylvania Police Shooting [Breaking News]
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, right, speaks to the press at the Blooming Grove Baptist Church in Pike County, Pa., Monday, Sept. 15, 2014 about the shooting Friday night that took the life of a Pennsylvania State Police trooper and critically injured another. Corbett said investigators won't rest until they capture the gunman. He flanked by Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan, left. AP Photo/The Times-Tribune, Michael J. Mullen
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
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Eric Matthew has been identified as the “survivalist” suspect in the Pennsylvania state police shooting.

Matthew, whose full name is Eric Matthew Frein, is 31 and lives about 20 miles from the barracks that were attacked on Friday, leaving one trooper dead and another wounded.

“He is at large and he is considered armed and extremely dangerous,” Commissioner Frank Noonan said, reported NBC.

“He has been described as a survivalist ... He has made statements about wanting to kill law enforcement officers and also about wanting to commit mass acts of murder.”

The gunman opened fire on the Blooming Grove barracks, killing Cpl. Bryon Dickson and critically wounding Trooper Alex Douglass.

Eric Matthew. (Twitter)
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Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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